As I told my editor at Audubon before the piece ran, "We're gonna get more mail about this than any we've EVER published. Get ready for a blizzard of nastygrams." While, I fully expected this reaction from the horse mafia, I was pleasantly

Willie: You're a genius and my favorite singer. But we need to learn ABOUT horses (esp. feral ones) a lot more than we need to learn "from" them. What are we gonna do with all them extra horses? And why is slaughter less humane that starvation?